Your navigation system just got a critical update, one that happens periodically because Earth’s magnetic north pole keeps moving. Here’s what to know.

"Magnetic north has been moving slowly around Canada since the 1500s ... from South Africa to the UK in a straight line would leave you 150 km (93 miles) off course by the end, if you used the old WMM ...

And so the new model confirmed that we were not very far off,” Arnaud Chulliat, a research scientist from UC-Boulder told CNN. Scientists (hopefully) won’t check back in on magnetic north’s true ...

Check your compass again — Earth’s north magnetic pole is moving toward Siberia. Since at least the early 19th century, Earth’s north magnetic pole has been situated in the Canadian Arctic ...

scientists verified the accuracy of the previous model’s predictions about where magnetic north would end up by 2025, Chulliat said. “The forecast was very good,” he said. “And so the new ...